TOLLBERG APD 103

Ship Name and Designation History

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Rudderow Class Destroyer Escort Keel Laid 30 December 1943 as "DE-593" Launched 12 February 1944 Redesignated a Crosley Class High-speed Transport 17 July 1944 USS TOLLBERG APD-103 Commissioned 31 January 1945 - Decommissioned 20 December 1946 Struck from Naval Register November 1964 ARC ALMIRANTE PADILLA DT-03 (Colombian Naval Service) Transferred to Colombia 14 August 1965 & renamed Struck by the Colombian Navy in 1973 and broken up for scrap

 

Naval Covers

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1. USS Tollberg APA-103 Covers Page 1    (1946-1965)

 

Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

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Post Office Established 1 February 1945 - Disestablished 23 July 1946

 

Locy Type 2z

1946-01-05

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Locy Type 9# (Br. #15513)

1946-01-04

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Locy Type LDPS 9#

1946-11-06

Last Day of Postal Service, cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

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ARC ALMIRANTE PADILLA DT-03

 

Ship's Marking

1965-09-25

Welcome to Norfolk cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

 

Other Information

USS TOLLBERG earned the China Service Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 1 Battle star, the World War II Victory Medal and the Navy Occupation Service Medal w/ Asia clasp during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - Watertender Second Class Maynard W. Tollberg, USN (February 17 1904 - January 30 1943)
    Tollberg was born in North Branch, Minn. Tollberg enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve on 23 September 1923 and was honorably discharged on 15 September 1927. He reenlisted on 23 June 1942 with the same rating and was assigned duty on board USS La Vallette DD-448.
     On the afternoon of 30 January 1943, during the second day of the Battle of Rennell Island, USS La Vallette was screening the damaged cruiser USS Chicago CA-29 when 11 enemy torpedo planes attacked. USS La Vallette received a torpedo hit in her forward engine room which killed 22 members of the crew. Watertender Second Class Tollberg, although fatally scalded by high temperature steam, painfully climbed up the fireroom ladder and emerged on the main deck through a hatch which had been blown open by the detonation. Despite severe pain and partial blindness, he expended his dying strength trying to close the control valve through which oil was pouring into the fireroom below, where a number of his helpless shipmates were trapped. Tollberg then collapsed and soon died of his wounds. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. The ships sponsor was Mrs. Maynard W. Tollberg.

 

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